For the first time in 25 years of gaming I am ashamed to be a gamer. When you are called a social justice warrior for pointing out racism, harassment and hate speech in the in-game chat of your favorite video game something is very wrong. more
For the first time in 25 years of gaming I am ashamed to be a gamer. When you are called a social justice warrior for pointing out racism, harassment and hate speech in the in-game chat of your favorite video game something is very wrong. more
The short version: Synology does not care about the DSM apps (add-on packages) that come with their NAS. DSM apps that are supposed to replace cloud services are not stable enough to trust them with your data. And synology support is just abysmal. more
Bulgaria recently adopted a law stating that software developed for the public sector should be open source (techcrunch.com). That got me thinking: open source adoption in the public sector is extremely slow in general. Decision makers seem to show signs of a phobia when it comes to using open source or encouraging their suppliers to develop open source solutions. Here is a subjective and cynical explanation of where I think this phobia comes from.
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Everything in our modern western society is software based. What seemed impossible only 20 years ago is currently a part of our everyday lives. Software has taken over taxi services, classifieds, news consumption, movie and tv consumption, book delivery, cars, energy distribution, warfare, and many more.
A new term has emerged in software-based innovation that has transformed our western life style significantly: disruptive innovation. Disruptive innovation refers to situations where established businesses have been hit hard or completely destroyed by a new software driven solution. Common examples include Uber, Craigslist or Netflix.
Software becoming simpler is just an illusion. The opposite is true: software itself has become even more complicated over the past 20 years. Software nowadays consists of layer upon layer of software applications. Some of those layers are located in other geographical locations; and in those locations even more layers of the software exists. The main reason why most people think software has become simpler is because they only see the final layer on the top of all of the other layers. It is the shiny layer that has been created by skilled artists and polished by countless tests and interviews with target audiences. What people see when they start an app on their phone or tablet is just a tiny fraction of what this software actually consists of.
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I have to say I am, or I was, a big believer in SAS (software as a service) systems and cloud based systems in general. But the announced shutdown of Google Reader (Google Reader is dead) made me think a lot. more